STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - When President Barack Obama raises his right hand and takes the oath of office for a second term from Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Sunday, Staten Island voters can take a small part of the credit.

Breaking their pattern of voting for Republicans in White House contests, Island voters gave Obama a three-point victory over GOP challenger Mitt Romney in November.

Obama is just the fourth Democrat to win the Island in a presidential election since 1936.

Lackluster GOP reaction to Romney was the main culprit, but Hurricane Sandy also depressed voter turnout on the storm-damaged South Shore, a Republican stronghold.

Even though Romney won the South Shore and East Shore, the former Massachusetts governor scored far fewer votes across the Island than 2008 GOP nominee John McCain did.

The 57th presidential inauguration will take place shortly before noon in the Blue Room in the White House.

The small swearing-in ceremony is being held because presidential terms end at noon on Jan. 20 under the U.S. Constitution, necessitating a swearing-in ceremony for the new or re-elected president on that date.

Following long tradition, Obama is having a ceremony on a Sunday, followed by a public inauguration and parade on Monday.

Obama is the seventh president or president-elect to have a swearing-in on a Sunday.

Obama and Roberts will hope there is no repeat of Obama's first swearing-in, when Roberts flubbed the wording of the oath, meaning that Obama did not repeat the oath as prescribed in the Constitution. A re-do was held the next day in the White House Map Room.

Obama has chosen to use two Bibles during his swearing-in -- one owned by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the other by Abraham Lincoln.

He used the Lincoln Bible while taking the oath four years ago. He is adding King's Bible for an inaugural ceremony that will take place on Jan. 21, the federal holiday honoring the civil rights leader.

When all is said and done on Monday, Obama will have taken the oath of office four times, tying Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt, though, took the oaths after winning four separate White House terms.

Vice President Joe Biden also will be sworn in for a second term on Sunday, at 8 a.m. in the U.S. Naval Observatory. He will take the oath from Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.---Follow @siadvance on Twitter